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BRAILING

8 letters

Definition of BRAILING

verb

present participle and gerund of brail

BRAIL

noun

A small rope used to truss up sails.

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Word DNA

BRAILING inherits its ancestry from its root, BRAIL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,595)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, BRAIL · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BRAILING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 145
Its 14 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
72
First board
138
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

meatsandcheeses

on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BRAILING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BRAILING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGIILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Could you have found BRAILING?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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